can’t establish a connection to the server at localhost

  • Resolved bnther

    (@bnther)


    14 years, 8 months ago

    I’ve built the beginnings of a new theme on my desktop using WAMP and I wanted to put it online so that the client could view and comment on progress. I’ve put considerable time into this, but have yet achieve good results.

    Steps I’ve done:
    Setup WordPress on Godaddy
    Exported the desktop database, changed the DNS and uploaded it to Godaddy.
    Copied the new wp-content over.

    I’m obviously missing something and I got an email from technical support from Godaddy saying, “we are limited in the detailed support we can provide for this product.” But it seems to me like this is a server issue and not a WordPress issue.

    You can see it here:
    Any help would be appreciated
    Any recommendations for a more supportive host would be appreciated as well.

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  • Look at your page source; you have CSS and URL links to localhost. Are they hardcoded in your theme files? Use Template Tags/bloginfo ? WordPress Codex i.e., <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?> and <?php bloginfo('siteurl'); ?>

    Thread Starter bnther

    (@bnther)

    songdogtech

    Thank you or the reply.

    This is my link for the header page.

    <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’); ?>” type=”text/css” />

    I think you might be on the right track though. If I visit the site online and WAMP happens to be running, it works just fine(that one really threw me for a loop) But if I turn WAMP off, it’s a no-go

    Review Moving_WordPress.

    Thread Starter bnther

    (@bnther)

    esmi

    OMG! What an incredibly painful process that was.

    Thank you for the link. That’s was the final hurdle. Between uploading a new database over the old one, and who knows how many different sets of user name and passwords, the finally thing was the URI (and God forbid you should accidentally check it before everything is moved over). I have uninstalled/reinstalled WAMP today 4 times today trying to work through this process. It’s still not completely right. Images that I loaded on the desktop didn’t get the right url, but at least the pages are there. I’m not sure that I’ll be able to get it on the first try next time, but I shouldn’t pull out as much hair next time.

    Thanks again for all of the help.

    Tim

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